Stiller shoots him a very Ben Stiller look, wide-eyed ... That easy camaraderie leaps off the screen in "Nutcrackers," a heartwarming vision from director David Gordon Green (2018's "Halloween" reboot) that tells the story of career-obsessed Michael ...

As Green aims to remind critics and audiences that he is capable of more than his deeply grim horror reboots (like the Halloween trilogy and The Exorcism: Believer) or chaotic stoner comedies, he's offered a silly and sentimental muddle of a movie that's neither satisfying nor fun.

Ben Stiller tells USA TODAY’s Marco della Cava what it was like working with kids and animals on his new Hulu movie “Nutcrackers.”